Everyone in our community believes the safety and security of our children is important. We meet 3 people keeping our children safe from school shootings. Learn about the programs that keep our school staff informed during an incident. Hear how this system prevented the escalation of an incident here in Roswell. 

Thank you Roswell Independent School District for allowing us to have Kristen Salyards Community Schools District Lead, Ana Romero School Resource Officer, and LJ Harrell the Safe School Liaison with us on this episode.

Episode Highlights 

1:10 -  Meet the Roswell Independent School District Security Team

2:00 - Is there a difference between safety and security?

4:30 - Safe School Act - What changed after the Stoneman Douglass school shooting

6:00 - How this changed our community

7:00 - Security Triad - Staff Training, Building Design, and Law Enforcement Response 

8:30 - What the resource officer program looks like in Roswell

9:45 - Natasha details how Ana used the system to de-escalate a gun situation in Roswell

11:15 - Ana explains her point of view during the incident

14:30 - Today’s police response time and how training has changed since Columbine

15:30 - A L I C E - Alert,  Lockdown, Inform Counter and Evacuate

16:30 - What happens when an alert goes out

18:30 - What the team structure looks like during these events

19:00 - Kristen explains to how the system allows staff to stay in touch

21:00 - Communication provides calm and reduces concerns 

24:30 - Security features being installed in schools

27:00 - Classroom kits to that allow teachers to keep their rooms secure

30:45 - Natasha points how staff are positively impacted by these changes

33:00 - 9 out of 10 parents surveyed have a lot of anxiety about school shootings 

34:00 - The empowerment that comes with participation in your own survival

36:00 - What we now know about why school shootings are taking place and it’s not bullying

39:00 - Relaxing the role the media plays in the motivation and the changes that need to be made. 

41:00 - Changing the way young people see law enforcement

43:30 - LJ shares how a resource officers are also protectors, and mentors

44:30 - The probability of being in a school shooting

47:00 - Why each member of the team does this work. 

 51:00 - How this alert system has comforted the community